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Air
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) To expose to the air for the purpose of cooling, refreshing, or purifying; to ventilate; as, to air a room.
(2):
(n.) A particular state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.
(3):
(n.) Any aeriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air.
(4):
(n.) Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind.
(5):
(n.) Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air.
(6):
(n.) Odoriferous or contaminated air.
(7):
(n.) Utterance abroad; publicity; vent.
(8):
(n.) Intelligence; information.
(9):
(n.) A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.
(10):
(n.) In harmonized chorals, psalmody, part songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody - in modern harmony usually the upper part - is sometimes called the air.
(11):
(n.) The peculiar look, appearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air.
(12):
(n.) Peculiar appearance; apparent character; semblance; manner; style.
(13):
(n.) An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs.
(14):
(n.) The representation or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed.
(15):
(n.) That which surrounds and influences.
(16):
(n.) To expose for the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion.
(17):
(n.) To expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors.
(18):
(n.) Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile.
(19):
(n.) The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.
(20):
(n.) The artificial motion or carriage of a horse.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Air'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/air.html. 1828.
